Why the polls will be wrong.
It is very simple: the electorate is no longer tilted Democratic. Sadly, too many pollsters — and liberal pundits — refuse to recognize this fact.
Tag: government
How our bitter election will end
How our bitter election will end.
We hope.
A federal judge in Detroit has ruled that a Catholic-owned private business does not have to comply with the Obama administrations contraceptive mandate.
We’ve only just begun: A federal judge in Detroit has ruled that a Catholic-owned private business does not have to comply with the Obama administrations contraceptive mandate.
The proposed IRS tax form every American will have to fill out when Obamacare goes into effect.
Finding out what’s in it: A proposed IRS tax form every American will have to fill out when Obamacare goes into effect.
This form is not from the IRS, but it is based on the actual law, and is I think a reasonably good facsimile of the kind of information the IRS will require when the individual mandate goes into effect and the IRS will have to determine whether you have health insurance or need to pay higher taxes because you don’t.
I especially like the section of the form that asks these questions:
- Are you claiming a religious exemption from the individual responsibility mandate?
- Are you an incarcerated criminal and therefore exempt from the personal mandate?
- Are you an illegal immigrant and therefore exempt from the personal mandate?
All three exemptions exist, though the Obama administration has already made it clear that the first will only be available to actual religious organizations, and even there the exemption will be limited. However, if you are a criminal or illegal immigrant (also a lawbreaker) you are exempt from this law, though you receive all its benefits.
As I’ve said, Repeal this turkey! And vote out every idiot that supported it.
The President’s insulting campaign.
It appears that Facebook has censored a post by the Navy Seals merely because it was critical of President Obama.
Free speech for me but not for thee: It appears that Facebook has censored a post by the Navy Seals merely because it was critical of President Obama.
Religious liberty explained in sixteen seconds.
Religious liberty explained in sixteen seconds.
Serena Ryder – Sing Sing
An evening pause:
An openly gay volunteer for a Republican running for Congress in Wisconsin was severely beaten in his home after receiving threatening and obscene messages from the husband of the Democratic candidate.
Democratic civility: An openly gay volunteer for a Republican running for Congress in Wisconsin was severely beaten in his home after receiving threatening and obscene messages from the husband of the Democratic candidate.
The Democratic candidate is also openly gay, and it was his husband who sent the messages, some of which are also include racial insults of the Republican candidate’s Mexican-American wife.
“He is incompetent, dishonest and not interested in the actual work of governing.”
Guess who: “He is incompetent, dishonest and not interested in the actual work of governing.”
Seems an apt and accurate description to me. And the man who wrote it was an Obama voter in 2008.
The FAA has issued an experimental permit to SpaceX to test fly its Grasshopper reusable rocket booster.
The competition heats up: The FAA has issued an experimental permit to SpaceX to test fly its Grasshopper reusable rocket booster.
“We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”
Guess who said this: “We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”
And the speaker was not an Islamic radical.
Reactions to the Italian conviction of seven earthquake scientists
Two reactions today to the Italian conviction of seven earthquake scientists:
- Italy’s top scientists resign their government posts after quake conviction.
- What’s wrong with punishing bad predictions?
In the first, scientists are appalled. In the second someone asks what I think is at least a reasonable question. Even if we agree that prison is an overreaction in this case, it does seem valid to me that scientists face some consequences for misstating risks in certain circumstances.
The TSA is pulling its invasive X-ray scanners from the country’s busiest airports.
Good news: The TSA is pulling its invasive X-ray scanners from the country’s busiest airports.
Unfortunately, they aren’t getting rid of them, only moving them to less busy airports. Nonetheless, this action suggests that the refusal of many people (such as myself) to submit to these machines slowed things down enough that the TSA was forced to abandon them. This suggests that more people should refuse and force them to do as many body searches as possible. In the end we get rid of them all.
A Christian group has been banned at Tufts University for demanding its members believe in Christianity.
Freedom of religion for me but not for thee: A Christian group has been banned at Tufts University for demanding its members believe in Christianity.
The filmmaker who made the anti-Islamic movie falsely blamed by the Obama administration for the Libya attack has now been in jail for a month.
Freedom of speech is so 20th century: The filmmaker who made the anti-Islamic movie falsely blamed by the Obama administration for the Libya attack has now been in jail for a month.
The movie had nothing to do with the Libya attack. And even if it caused the riots in Egypt, who cares? I thought there was something called the First Amendment, a law to protect the speech rights of U.S. citizens. Yet, Barack Obama and his entire administration have done everything they can to blame the movie, not their own foreign policies, while going out of their way to squelch this man’s freedom.
But remember those binders!
The unreality of the past four years.
The unreality of the past four years.
For me, this unreality began during the Clinton years, continued during George Bush’s administration, and reached its height at the 2008 election. The country chose to be delusional, making its choices not based on facts but solely on emotion and good intentions.
Ahmadinejad: “How long can a government with a $16 trillion foreign debt remain a world power?”
Ahmadinejad: “How long can a government with a $16 trillion foreign debt remain a world power?”
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Though even here, Ahmadinejad isn’t quite right, as the debt of the U.S. is not all foreign.
The federal government has spent $27 million teaching Moroccans how to make pottery.
Your tax dollars at work: The federal government has spent $27 million teaching Moroccans how to make pottery.
A Texas judge is expected to rule today on whether cheerleaders have the right to quote the bible at high school football games.
A Texas judge is expected to rule today on whether cheerleaders have the right to quote the bible at high school football games.
And if he rules they can’t, I say they should go ahead anyway, as they have the right to express themselves no matter what a judge says.
Update: The judge has ruled in favor of the cheerleaders.